SB 1152 – Discharge Planning
MENTAL HEALTH & CONSERVATORSHIP BILLS 2019
Bill No.	Author	Title	Summary	
AB 4	Arambula (D)	Medi-Cal: Eligibility	Extends eligibility for full-scope Medi-Cal benefits to individuals of all ages, if otherwise eligible for those benefits, but for their immigration status.	
AB 8	Chu (D)	Pupil Health: Mental Health Professionals	Requires a school or a school district or county office of education and a charter school to have at least one mental health professional for every 400 pupils generally accessible to pupils on campus during school hours.	
AB 43	Gloria (D)	Mental Health	States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure that Mental Health Services Act funds are used in accordance with the provisions of the act and that there is adequate oversight of excess unspent funds.	
AB 46	Carrillo (D)	Individuals With Mental Illness: Change of Term	States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to replace derogatory terms, including, but not limited to, insane and mentally defective, with more culturally sensitive terms when referring to individuals with mental illness.	
AB 70	Berman (D)	Mental Health in Schools	States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would support youth mental health in schools.	
AB 260	Quirk-Silva (D)	Postsecondary Education: Financial Aid: Cal Grant	Authorizes applicants for Cal Grant A and Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards to submit financial aid applications in any academic year subsequent to their high school graduation or equivalent for the immediately following award year.	
AB 303	Cervantes (D)	Mental Health: Sexually Violent Predators: Trial	Relates to the processes necessary for civil commitment as a sexually violent predator. Provides that the party petitioning for trial and the person subject to the petition have a right to a speedy trial upon the court's determination that there is probable cause to believe that the person subject to the petition is likely to engage in sexually violent predatory criminal behavior upon the person's release. Establishes procedures for requesting and granting continuances in these trials.	
AB 306	Ramos (D)	Mental Health Services Fund	Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of the Mental Health Services Act.	
AB 316	Ramos (D)	MediCal: Benefits: Special Dental Care Needs	Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to implement a payment adjustment to MediCal providers who render dental services to MediCal beneficiaries. Provides that the bill would not limit the provision or scope of MediCal benefits covered under existing law. Requires the Department to seek any necessary approvals from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement the bill.	
AB 389	Arambula (D)	Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Peer Navigators	Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to either establish a pilot program or expand an existing pilot program for purposes of measuring the efficacy and cost avoidance of utilizing trained substance use disorder peer navigators and behavioral health peer navigators in the emergency department of an acute care hospital if funds for this purpose are appropriated in the annual Budget Act.	
AB 451	Arambula (D)	Treatment of Psychiatric Emergency Medical Conditions	Requires a psychiatric unit within a general acute care hospital, a psychiatric health facility, or an acute psychiatric hospital that has accepted a person for the purpose of determining the existence of a psychiatric medical emergency condition, to provide emergency services and care to treat that person, regardless of whether the facility operates an emergency department, if the facility has appropriate facilities and qualified personnel.	
AB 480	Salas (D)	Mental Health: Older Adults	Establishes within the State Department of Health Care Services an Older Adult Mental Health Services Administrator to oversee mental health services for older adults. Requires that position to be funded with administrative funds reserved to the department from the Mental Health Services Fund.	
AB 512	Ting (D)	Medi-Cal: Specialty Mental Health Services	Requires each mental health plan to prepare a cultural competency assessment plan to address disparities in access, utilization, and outcomes by race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, gender identity, and immigration status. Requires the convening of a committee to review and approve the cultural competency assessment plan.	
AB 563	Quirk-Silva (D)	Mental Health Services Fund	Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of the Mental Health Services Act, which establishes the Mental Health Services Fund to fund specified county mental health programs.	
AB 577	Eggman (D)	MediCal: Maternal Mental Health	Extends MediCal postpartum care for up to one year beginning on the last day of the pregnancy for an eligible individual diagnosed with a maternal mental health condition. Defines maternal mental health condition for purposes of the bill.	
AB 666	Gabriel (D)	Pupil Health: Mental Health	Expresses the intent of the Legislature to later enact legislation relating to State Department of Education protocols on pupil mental health.	
AB 680	Chu (D)	Public Safety Dispatchers: Mental Health Training	Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to adopt 2 mental health training courses for local public safety dispatchers that meet the minimum training requirements recognize, deescalate and respond to persons with mental illness, intellectual disabilities, or substance use disorders.	
AB 682	Eggman (D)	Health Facilities: Residential Mental Health	Requires the Department of Public Health, in consultation with specified entities, to develop and submit a proposal to solicit a grant under the federal 21st Century Cures Act to develop a real-time, Internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about the availability of beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, crisis stabilization, community mental health and licensed alcoholism/drug abuse treatment.	
AB 713	Mullin (D)	Early Psychosis Intervention Plus (EPI-Plus) Program	Deletes the requirements under the Mental Health Services Act that a minimum deposit into the Early Psychosis and Mood Disorder Detection and Intervention Fund be from nonstate funds.	
AB 826	Reyes (D)	Medi-Cal: Specialty Mental Health Services	Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing law requiring each local mental health plan to establish a procedure to ensure access to outpatient specialty mental health services for youth in foster care who have been placed outside their county of adjudication.	
AB 895	Muratsuchi (D)	School-Based Early Mental Health Services	Revises the School-Based Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention Services for Children to award grants rather than matching grants, and would expand the definition of an eligible pupil to include a pupil who attends a preschool program at a contracting agency of the State preschool program or a local educational agency, and a pupil who is in transitional kindergarten, thereby extending the application of the act to those persons.	
AB 916	Muratsuchi (D)	Suicide Prevention	Relates to a suicide prevention education, and gatekeeper program. Requires the target populations to include community college, 4-year college, and university undergraduate and graduate students.	
AB 984	Lackey (R)	Suicide Prevention Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund	Allows a taxpayer to designate an amount in excess of personal income tax liability to be transferred into the Suicide Prevention Voluntary Contribution Fund. Requires moneys transferred to the Fund to award grants to nonprofit organizations providing suicide prevention services.	
AB 997	Low (D)	Firearms: Persons Detained or Apprehended	Prohibits a person who has been detained or apprehended for examination of their mental condition from possessing a firearm or deadly weapon pending the hearing and would prohibit the person from having possession of a firearm of deadly weapon for a period of 5 years if the court determines that the return of the firearm or other deadly weapons would likely endanger the person or other.	
AB 1055	Levine (D)	Mental Health: Involuntary Commitment	Requires a person involuntarily committed who is released to also be referred for further care and treatment on a voluntary basis, and would require a psychiatrist, psychologist, or medical director approving the release, to, prior to that release, ensure that an initial outpatient appointment with a psychiatrist or psychologist within 5 business days of the release is scheduled.	
AB 1275	Santiago (D)	Homelessness: Mental Health	States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to mental health and homelessness.	
AB 1352	Waldron (R)	Community Mental Health Services: Board	Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the provisions of the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act.	
AB 1443	Maienschein (D)	Mental Health: Technical Assistance Centers	Requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission to establish technical assistance centers to support counties in addressing mental health issues that are of statewide concern and establish, with stakeholder input, which mental health issues are of statewide concern.	
AB 1474	Wicks (D)	Mental Health Master Plan	Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions requiring the establishment of a mental health master plan.	
AB 1546	Kiley (R)	Pupil Health: Mental Health	States the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation relating to pupil mental health.	
AB 1547	Kiley (R)	Special Education Funding: Mental Health Services	Expresses the intent of the Legislature to later enact legislation to increase the flexibility of the use of funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2011 for providing educationally related mental health services, including out of home residential services for emotionally disturbed pupils, required by an individualized education program.	
AB 1572	Chen (R)	Mental Health Services: Gravely Disabled	Changes the definition of gravely disabled for the purposes of involuntary commitment and conservatorship. Establishes a grant program to assist local jurisdictions to maintain appropriate caseloads for individuals who manage conservatorship cases.	
AB 1601	Ramos (D)	Office of Emergency Services: Behavioral Health	Establishes a behavioral health deputy director within the Office of Emergency Services to ensure individuals have access to necessary mental and behavioral health services and supports in the aftermath of a natural disaster or declaration of a state of emergency.	
AB 1615	Arambula (D)	Mental Health: Anti Immigration Activities	States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to mitigate the impact of anti-immigration activities and rhetoric on the mental health and well-being of children in immigrant families in California by, among other things, investing in community-based treatment modalities.	
AB 1619	Weber (D)	Mental Health Loan Assumption Program	Appropriates $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, to increase available grant moneys for students eligible to apply for the Mental Health Loan Assumption Program (MHLAP), established by the office under the Mental Health Services Act and administer by the foundation.	
AB 1676	Maienschein (D)	Health Care: Mental Health	Requires health care service plans and insurers to establish a telehealth consultation program for providers to more quickly treat children, and pregnant and postpartum persons suffering from mental illness with access to a psychiatrist. Requires health care service plans and insurers to communicate information relating to the telehealth program.	
AB 1689	McCarty (D)	College Mental Health Services Program	Requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, subject to appropriation by the Legislature, to create a grant program for public community colleges, colleges, and universities for the purpose of improving access to mental health services on those campuses, as specified.	
AB 1705	Bonta (D)	Judicial Commitment: Mental Competence	Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the State Department of Developmental Services.	
AB 1739	Medina (D)	Pupil Health: Mental Health	Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would promote mental health and the prevention of mental illness for California's pupils.	
SB 10	Beall (D)	Mental Health: Peer, Parent, Transition-Age Specialist	Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to establish a statewide peer, parent, transition-age, and family support specialist certification Program, as a part of the state's comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder delivery system and the Medi-Cal program.	
SB 11	Beall (D)	Health Care Coverage: Mental Health Parity	Requires a health care service plan and a health insurer to submit an annual report to the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance certifying compliance with state and federal mental health parity laws.	
SB 12	Beall (D)	Mental Health Services: Youth	Requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission to administer an Integrated Youth Mental Health Program for purposes of establishing local centers to provide integrated youth mental health services.	
SB 36	Hertzberg (D)	Pretrial Release: Risk Assessment Tools	Requires pretrial services agency that uses a pretrial risk assessment tool to validate the tool on a regular basis and to make specified information regarding the tool, including validation studies, publicly available. Requires the Judicial Council to maintain a list of pretrial services agencies that have satisfied those validation requirements and complied with those transparency requirements. Requires each pretrial services agency to maintain specified data regarding any pretrial risk assessment tool.	
SB 40	Weiner (D)	Conservatorship: Serious Mental Illness and Disorders	Authorizes a court to establish a temporary conservatorship for a persons incapable for caring for themselves due to a serious mental illness and substance use disorder.	
SB 42	Skinner (D)	The Getting Home Safe Act	Requires the sheriff to make the release standards, release procedures, and release schedules of a county jail available to the public and to incarcerated persons. Provides a person with the right to request that, upon his or her release from a county jail, he or she be assisted in entering a drug or alcohol rehabilitation program, and requires the county jail to provide transportation from jail to a rehabilitation program or hospital free of charge immediately upon release from jail.	
SB 44	Skinner (D)	Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicles: Comprehensive Strategy	Requires the State Air Resources Board to develop a comprehensive strategy for the deployment of medium and heavy duty vehicles in the state that results in bringing the state into compliance with federal ambient air quality standards and a reduction of motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. States that an unspecified amount of the annual proceeds of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will be appropriated to support the California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program.	
SB 66	Atkins (D)	Medi-Cal: Federal Qualified Health Center	Authorizes reimbursement to providers for a maximum of 2 visits taking place at a federally qualified health center or rural health clinic on the same day at a single location if after the first visit the patient suffers illness or injury requiring additional diagnosis or treatment, or if the patient has a medical visit and a mental health visit or a dental visit.	
SB 120	Stern (D)	Public Safety	States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure public safety.	
SB 282	Beall (D)	Supportive Housing for Parolees	Repeals the Integrated Services for Mentally Ill Parolees program and instead enacts the Supportive Housing Program for Persons on Parole to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Incorporates similar eligibility criteria for eligible participants and similar criteria for housing funded by the program. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to transfer funds appropriated from the General Fund for the ISMIP program to the department for the new program.	
SB 303	Weickowski (D) 	Guardians and Conservators: Compensation	Prohibits compensation to a guardian or conservator from funds paid to the ward or conservatee from a government program, including, but not limited to, federal Social Security payments, Medicare, or Medi-Cal.	
SB 331	Hurtado (D)	Suicide Prevention: Strategic Plans	Requires counties to create a suicide prevention strategic plan that places particular emphasis on preventing suicide in children who are less than 19 years of age.	
SB 389	Hertzberg (D)	Mental Health Services Act	Amends the Mental Health Services Act to authorize the counties to use MHSA moneys to provide services to persons who are participating in a presentencing or postsentencing diversion program or who are on parole, probation, postrelease community supervision, or mandatory supervision.	
SB 428	Pan (D)	Teachers: Youth Mental Health First Aid	Requires an applicant for a clear multiple or single subject teaching credential to complete a course in youth mental health first aid.	
SB 539	Caballero (D)	Mental Health Services: Workforce Education Funds	Amends the Mental Health Services Act by requiring the Controller, in any fiscal year in which the Department of Finance estimates that the revenues to be deposited into Mental Health Services Fund for the fiscal year will exceed the revenues deposited into the fund in the prior fiscal year, to, no later than the last day of each month and before any transfer or expenditure from the fund for the following month, set aside a certain amount in the fund.	
SB 582	Beall (D)	Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder	Requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, when making grant funds available on and after July 1, 2021, to allocate at least 1/2 of those funds to local educational agency and mental health partnerships, as specified.	
SB 590	Stone (R)	Substance Use Disorders: Involuntary Treatment	Authorizes a parent, legal guardian, or spouse of a person to file a petition in the court for purposes of involuntary treatment of the person, if that person suffers from a substance use disorder, presents an imminent threat of danger to self, family, others as a result of the substance use disorder, or a substantial likelihood of that threat in the near future exists, and can reasonably benefit from treatment.	
SB 596	Stern (D)	Mental Health	Provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of a person receiving both evaluation and treatment under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act.	
SB 604	Bates (R)	Mental Health Services Act: Centers of Excellence	Requires the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission by January 1, 2021, to establish centers of excellence to provide the counties with technical assistance to implement best practices related to elements of the Mental Health Services Act.	
SB 640	Moorlach (R)	Mental Health Services: Gravely Disabled	Changes the definition of "gravely disabled" to read, in part, a condition in which a person, as a result of a mental health disorder is incapable of making informed decisions about, or providing for, their own basic personal needs for food, clothing, shelter, or medical care without significant supervision and assistance from another person and, as a result is at risk of substantial bodily harm, or significant psychiatric deterioration.	
SB 660	Pan (D)	Postsecondary Education: Mental Health Counselors	Requires the Trustees of the California State University and the governing board of each community college district to have one full-time equivalent mental health counselor with an applicable California license per 1,500 students enrolled at each of their respective campuses on the extent consistent with state and federal law.